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Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that forever changed the meaning of the American Dream and won multiple Tony Awards for the 2012 Broadway production directed by Mike Nichols and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as the tragic hero Willy Loman and Andrew Garfield as his son Biff Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his marriage and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. Arthur Miller's masterpiece has steadily seen productions all over the world since its 1949 debut. As the noted Miller scholar Christopher Bigsby states in his introduction, "If Willy's is an American dream, it is also a dream shared by all those who are aware of th

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Author
Arthur Miller; Christopher Bigsby
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published
1949
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141180977
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Drama, Literary Fiction
Rating
4.5 / 5 (4,472 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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